The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-10
MORE CARE AND WATCHFUL'
NESS NEEDED.

NESS NEEDED.
The Waco Examiner evidently has
receded from its position that man
should fight highwaymen against odds
which would be almost suicidal. The
Examiner took whole column to
respond 10 i'gRALD paragraph de-
Tending mail aud express agents
against the Examiners charge OF
cowardice and faithessnes Then
came the Fort Worth Mail with bran
new argument against the pistol law
ia the Dallas Park outrage, clf ming
that had Mr.. Barlow not been disarm-
ed by the new pistol law he couid
have defended himself ana lady COM
panion against the two negroes. The
HERALD responded to this that the
Mails remedy of every-man- '.law-un-
to-himself would be long step to-
ward reign of lawlessness aud ms :
curity which is prevented only by the
government system sustained by tax
alton for the pi me purpose Of securing
peace, older nd security to life and
property. But the most inconsistent
course of all is that of the Waco Ex-
aminer, which insists that express and
mail agents should fight superior
numbers in defense of their trusts TO
the risk of their lives, end then asks
in excuse OF Mr.. Barlow, "What
could one man have done age INST
two EARNED rufiians? Nevertheless,
the HERALD endorses the following
from the Examiner as in line with its
suggestion, Il week ago, of the impro-
priety OF the presence of the young
people in the park at that preseason
able late hear. The Examiner repeats
more fully and forcibly the HERALD's
warning to parents and young men
who have won the confidence Of young
girls aud their parents There is d
cidedly too much carelcssness ii this
regard, and it is to be hoped the ad-
monition will be needed by every
parent, man and woman in the land :
In France, Englerd aud other Euro
pean countries this crime is hardly
known, while other sexual crimes are
much more frequent then in this coun-
uy. The expl' ,ation is had in the
greater care of the young aud mex
perienced, which is exercised IN Euro
bean fannie There is too much lati-
tude here. Little girls 60 OH the
streets at 'ght, are permitted to go
TO church and to theatres o'nost alone.
Young ladies take long buggy rides
after night walk in lonely aud ru-
ireauented places and often without
male escort, or with young men with
whom they are almost perfect strsn-
gers, thus INVITING the suggestion of a
crime before which they tremble as
before the certainty of death. Marri-
ed ladies sometimes rely ing upon
their dignity of character and re-
spectablity take chr1ces that are III
tie short of recklessness.
The poor young lady at Dallas
should never have been at the park at
10 o'clock p. M, even with her be-
trothed. The risk is too great. What
can one man do against two, when
surprised as Barlow was? 1t is true
he could die. but should any young
lady present such fec -ful alternative
TO her betrobed husbeud or any one
else? 1t seems hard that it is UNSAFE
to walk anywhere in any city OF TINS
civilized lend, bnt we are dee ING win
thugs as they are, not as they shou'u
be, and the wiser plsn is to take no
risks. This young lady could nave
been seated IN safety in her parlor, on
the moon'it pis"za or garden seat at
home and under its prot 'ction. She
would have enjoyed the society of her
lover just as much aud there would
have been no SIX. aud none OF the
Notifying not ority which she is sub
jected to to-day.
The utmost care should be exer-
cised. The police should be tire'ess in
pursuit of such criminals, end by
watchiulness aud dreadful punish.
ment the country may be eventually
lifted above this cline which brings
% il so bad CT eminence.
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